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Re: Contents of file for a commit

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 27, 2008, 04:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20080127044944.GA25247@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20080127044027.GS24004@spearce.org>
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:40:27PM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> You can also just view the file if you don't want those changes
> to be made:
> 
> `git show $commit -- $path`

That doesn't work. It says "show me $commit, but limited by $path". So if $path was changed, you see the commit log and diff. If it wasn't, you see nothing.

-Peff
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